Tech Upgrade Suggestions

[cpaca]

Tech upgrade suggestions for CW4: 
The obvious [Fire rate, range, perhaps flying move speed, energy gen, ore gen(If it's added), packet speed] 

Some new possible techs: 
Building HP - Last longer against a large wave of creeper 
Upgraded Weapon - Weapon-on-weapon basis change. [Large upgrade cost, like a 1-time-use very powerful tech]

The changes for each weapon,Assuming CW3 weapons

Blaster/Sprayer/Sniper

Two turrets in one square: Allowing for one turret to, say, "Target digi only" while the other "Target Creeper Only" 

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Mortar

Fires four times as many projectiles at the same time, but each projectile has half the AOE 

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Strafer/Bomber

Two ships. For dragged-target points, one ship starts at one end of the dragged-target, the other at the other end. For single-point  targets, it treats it as a dragged-target with both dragged targets on the same point. 

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Beam

Attack 2 spores at once. Very Simple.

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Bertha

Target two squares at the same time!

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Modifiable explosions/Larger explosion maximum: Change the waves created from explosions for each turret. Smaller explosions deal less damage, but make smaller waves. 
Internal rift: The Command Node has an internal rift. Self-explanitory. 
The problem with this is "Place rift down, now infinite hover!" 
Solution:
Longer flight time: Allows the Command node to fly around for longer. If it flies around for too long, it lands, dealing a massive explosion destroying all creeper, AC or C, all turrets, not emitters [too strong alloy], and flattens the land 
Faster recharge: The batteries of the command node need to recharge after flying around. Faster recharge makes them charge faster. 
Rifted recharge: Faster recharge + Internal rift combo, allows the command node to use the Internal rift while on ground to charge flight faster.

[Qwerty Quazo]

Bertha

Target two squares at the same time!

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I have a hard time picturing this.

[Keeper Decagon]

And I'm pretty sure current Beams already target more than one spore at a time.

[chwooly]

For weapons the Power zones pretty much does this already, Except that your idea nerfs the PZ bertha. The only real change is to the blaster but even that is not a real improvement over placing it in a PZ. Of course the upside is that you get the PZ benefits without being limited to being in a PZ.

For explosions, dialing up the blast is interesting, you could change how many packets it needs to acquire before having enough charge to fire, Thereby changing the blast radius and blast force and directly effecting wave size and force. I also would want to be able to dial in distance so that I can shoot closer to the mortar.

If we do get sprayers I would like for them to be able to shoot up levels similar to the mortar, However I can see them only being able to shoot just 1 level higher.

The blasters currently don't have the selectable function you want because they only have 1 barrel however they way they are now just means they target the selected 1 first and if they don't have the preferred target in range they then go to the secondary target.

I very rarely use aircraft or shields. so if they were not in CW4 I wouldn't be upset.

IMO

Cheers

[kajacx]

I would really like health for non-weapons buildings as an upgrade, so when they get covered in creeper, the aren't insta-destroyed. Maybe only disable them until the creeper is gone while take damage? That would be great, and also it would somehat mitigate the wave spash issue, as a temorary floof of creeper wouldn't be so devastating.

[Karsten75]

...  floof of creeper  ...

Glorious typo...

[GameGibu]

...  floof of creeper  ...

Glorious typo...

I believe the scientific term is "Bun"⁽¹⁾

@kajacx, that sounds a little bit like my Idea about a platform unit... (here) i.e. a small flood is protected against for some period of time proportional to the amount of health the supporting platform underneath the unit has left.